As news of Ellen Pao’s resignation from Reddit spread across the Twitter-sphere, many saw sexism in play. The one-time partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers became a symbol of women’s struggle for parity in the tech industry after she accused the prominent venture capital firm of gender discrimination. Her lawsuit went to trial, and she lost. At least some see her departure from Reddit as another setback for the cause.

“I have decided to end my lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins,” Pao said in a statement sent to tech news site Re/code on Thursday. “I feel gratified that my actions have encouraged others to speak up about discrimination in venture capital and technology more broadly.”

In late March, a jury denied Pao’s claims that Kleiner Perkins discriminated against her because of her gender, and retaliated against her for reporting gender bias at the firm. The six-week sex bias trial had captivated Silicon Valley and the larger tech industry, where women are still in the minority in spite of efforts to increase diversity. In the venture capital industry, the gender gap is even more prominent: in 2014, only 6 percent of partners at venture capital firms were women, according to a Babson College study. And though Pao ultimately lost the case, supporters lauded her efforts to draw attention to the ongoing battle to create a level playing field for women in tech.

After KPCB successfully defended itself at trial, the venture capital firm demanded that Pao reimburse the $1 million or so it spent on legal costs—which Pao argued she shouldn’t have to pay. Instead, to resolve the suit completely, Pao told Re/code, she agreed to pay Kleiner the legal costs ordered by the judge in the case: a total of $275,966.

Pao also emphasized, in her statement, that she and Kleiner did not reach an agreement to settle the matter with a payment to Pao, which she claims would have required her silence. “Settlement might have provided me with financial benefits, but only at the great cost of silence,” she said. “I refuse to be silent on these important issues.”

The past year has been a rocky one for the former venture capitalist, who recently stepped down as interim CEO of online community Reddit after facing an all-out revolt over how to handle harassment and controversial content on the site.

But Pao has made it clear that she is ready to turn over a new leaf. “I have been reengaging with friends and colleagues,” she told Re/code. “It’s over.”

Reddit Will Now Quarantine Offensive Content

Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman has unveiled more specifics today on the site’s new content policy aimed at curbing at least some of the harassment and abuse that plagues the online community.

The policy update introduces a new concept, “quarantining,” that will make some offensive content viewable only to those who explicitly opt in. In an AMA with Reddit users last month, Huffman defined this type of content as “you know it when you see it. [It] violates a common sense of decency.”

Huffman also said today that Reddit had banned a handful of subreddits that promoted racist views and one with graphic content involving minors.

Though Huffman said he was confident the new policy “strikes the right balance,” some users were not so easily placated.

“I appreciate the general idea of what you’re doing,” one user wrote. “But ‘generally make Reddit worse for everyone else’ is so vague as to have no meaning.”

Since the company first said it would commit to addressing its dark side—a move that led to unrest on the site—some of Reddit’s highest-profile female executives have departed from the company. Ironically, the tumult hasn’t seemed to hurt the site’s traffic: Reddit pulled in 195 million visitors last month, up from about 164 million visitors in June.

Reddit Is Not a Free Speech Free-for-All

“While we didn’t create Reddit to be a bastion of free speech, the concept is important to us. /r/creepshots forced us to confront these issues in a way we hadn’t done before. Although I wasn’t at Reddit at the time, I agree with their decision to ban those communities.”

Reddit Racists Cheer News Their Subreddit Won’t Be Banned

Reddit is home to some of the most hateful content on the Internet, but at least some of it appears to be here to stay. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said during an AMA on the site today that the company would ban communities that “incite harm or violence against an individual or group of people,” as well as any subreddit that “harasses, bullies, or abuses an individual or group of people.”

But he did call out a specific racist subreddit by name—a name so offensive that we won’t repeat it here—as an example of the kind of content that would remain, though likely under a new classification—an assurance that brought cheers from the subreddit’s members.

At one point during the conversation, a Reddit user asked Huffman, “How much of the push toward removing ‘ugly’ elements of Reddit comes from the motivation to monetize Reddit?” Huffman responded: “Zero.”

Similar to NSFW, another type of content that is difficult to define, but you know it when you see it, is the content that violates a common sense of decency. This classification will require a login, must be opted into, will not appear in search results or public listings, and will generate no revenue for Reddit.

Huffman said that a subreddit that actively encouraged the harm of other people would be banned, while those that were merely offensive—he gave the example of a subreddit promoting racist views—would remain on the site under the new classification.

Redditors predictably demanded more clarity on how exactly this offensive content would be defined. Huffman said he had tried a lot of names, and “nothing fit,” but he wasn’t particularly bothered. The “I know it when I see it” standard, Huffman said, comes with solid precedent: “It was good enough for the Supreme Court of the United States of America.”

Reddit’s CEO Is Having An AMA To Discuss Offensive Content

Reddit is still melting down. Now, to address the community’s “dark side,” newly instated CEO Steve Huffman is planning an Ask Me Anything session at 1pm PT on Thursday to let Redditors collectively discuss the site’s values and its new content policy.

“Neither Alexis nor I created reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen,” Huffman wrote in a post on the site.

“These are very complicated issues, and we are putting a lot of thought into it. It’s something we’ve been thinking about for quite some time. We haven’t had the tools to enforce policy, but now we’re building those tools and reevaluating our policy.”

So, yeah, there’s been a lot of drama. And the big question for Huffman, at the AMA and in general, is whether or not company leaders have a plan for getting the community back on stable footing. Whatever happens, this upcoming AMA promises to be a doozy—maybe even another AMAgeddon.

Reddit Still Can’t Stem the Bleed

Reddit’s month of insanity is not over yet. The company just lost yet another prominent female executive.

The latest departure is Bethany Blount, Reddit’s chief engineer, who confirmed late Monday night that she would be leaving Reddit after just two months in the job. The news follows the controversial firing of Reddit AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor over the 4th of July weekend, and interim CEO Ellen Pao’s subsequent high-profile resignation last week.

In an interview with Re/code, Blount said that her decision to leave had to do with the “big bumps on the road ahead for Reddit.”

“Along the way, there are some very aggressive implied promises being made to the community—in comments to mods, quotes from board members—and they’re going have some pretty big challenges in meeting those implied promises,” Blount said.

Detractors Say The Problem Wasn’t Reddit, It Was Pao

Over the course of Ellen Pao’s high-profile gender discrimination trial earlier this year, Kleiner Perkins’ defense team sought to show that Pao’s dismissal from the company was about skills, not gender bias. At least some people in the Twitterverse agreed that the same dynamic was in play in her resignation today from Reddit.

Others were more conflicted about the connection between widespread criticism of Pao on the site and her departure from the company.

Some have decried Ellen Pao’s resignation from Reddit as a step in the wrong direction for an industry where women leaders are still a distinct minority, but the site’s detractors say good riddance. Though Reddit was originally intended as a place where the ideals of free speech and the wisdom of the crowd would reign, often the crowd turnedintoa mob. After a tumultuous year, Reddit foes argue, Pao is better served by moving on from the company.